teaching with maps taas analysis “mapped” to taks: what are we not doing right? geography and...
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Teaching WITH Maps
TAAS Analysis “mapped” to TAKS: What are we not doing right?Geography and History: What can we do?Teaching WITH Maps: At least 15 ideas…
TAAS --> TAKS
What is the problem?
Geography and History
It is impossible…
Geography and History
Recreate the geography of the past
What was the geographic context?• Human and physical characteristics?• Transportation routes, access to other
places, cultural orientation, links and barriers
• Human processes: how did people live in their world?
Geography and History
How has it changed?How did the geographic context influence and shape events?How did people perceive the world (and its geography) then?
Teaching WITH Maps
See the geographic context by teaching with maps
And personal accounts, data, pictures, literature and poems, songs, technological artifacts
HOW?
Teaching WITH Maps
Constantly link what with whereAnd what it is like at that place (human and physical characteristics)
Teaching WITH MapsUse maps of all kinds to teach
e.g., battles; election results; where presidents were born; explorer’s routes; growth of US cities over time; expansion of roads; railroads; canals; location of key economic activities; ethnic distribution patterns; religions and migration patterns; physical features; and so on…
Teaching WITH MapsHave students make maps of historical information
Story maps, e.g., for study aidsFormal thematic maps, e.g., slave vs free states at different periods of time; distribution of colonies by imperial power in 1800, 1850, 1900; 1950 and 2000; largest world cities in 1800, 1850, 1900, 1950, and 2000
